By Deborah Durkee on
10/14/2009 7:48 AM
Two Euro nuclear scientists—al Qaeda?
Have you heard this story? Two European nuclear scientists (well-renown) were recently arrested because of ties to al Qaeda. They seem to be connected to the same al Qaeda group caught (many died) experimenting with the bubonic plague in Pakistan this past January. This is the same group, home base in Algeria, who bombed U.N. headquarters in Algiers, killing 41. Many Algerians live in France and move freely between the two countries. Hmmm…bombings, bubonic plague, nuclear scientists. Can you say “weapons of mass destruction?” This is from Annie Jacobsen of Pajamas Media who noticed something interesting online this past Friday night:
…a single-line item on the Counterterrorism Blog: “Switzerland: Terror cops arrest Collider scientist linked with al-Qaeda,”...
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By Ted on
10/13/2009 7:10 AM
Recently the air has been full of information saying the government is about to ask all American's with guns to list them on their tax returns. While legislation has been introduced regarding gun ownership, this provision is not in the bill. So while it does not appear you will be required to list your guns on your 2009 tax return, there are still plenty of things in H.R. 45 (isn't this a great bill number for gun legislation) that should concern free law abiding citizens. It appears that if such legislation is passed, your mental heath records would be made available to the government. It would place substantial restrictions on gun owners and gun dealers in an attempt to make it more difficult for law abiding citizens to own and posess guns. What it doesn't do is keep the guns out of the hands of the criminals. Criminals who could give a damn about gun laws in the first place and...
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By Deborah Durkee on
10/12/2009 8:06 AM
Czar seeks “chilling effect.”
This is all about Cass Sunstein, the new “regulatory czar,” his latest book, and his desire to impose a “chilling effect” on Internet websites. This is an example of the folks who surround our president. How’s that warm and fuzzy feeling treating you today? This is from Lee Cary of the American Thinker:
The meta-message of Cass Sunstein's new book delivers a warning to those who would spread Internet "rumors" about Barack Obama.
The Regulatory Czar's latest book is entitled Rumors. It purports to be about how rumors spread…
The subtitle of the book is "How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done." … For Sunstein, "part of the answer lies in recognizing that a ‘chilling effect' on those who would spread destructive falsehood can be an excellent idea."…
Most...
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By Deborah Durkee on
10/11/2009 12:13 PM
They still spell it “Amerika.”
Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner has an excellent piece. We’re starting to see more and more of these columns in regular newspapers, and not just online, highlighting the influence on Obama by left-wing 60’s radicals. From online to regular newspapers…the next step is to those newspapers Washington politicians might actually read: the New York Times and the Washington Post, then maybe (maybe?) it might break into the alphabet networks and the left-wing cable news shows:
For those of us who grew up in the era when Weather Undergrounders Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn were familiar names in the news, it is always discomforting to be reminded of Barack Obama's many associations with people of the radical left - Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, etc.
Such folks' political thought never...
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By Deborah Durkee on
10/9/2009 7:39 AM
Stimulus scam.
For some time I’ve been calling the Stimulus Bill by the name I first read on Michele Malkin’s website: the Swindle Us Bill. I think that is still an apt description after reading this column by Richard W. Rahn in the Washington Times. He’s with the Cato Institute:
…Administration officials keep saying the stimulus program has been beneficial, but where is the evidence? Snip –
U.S. unemployment already has reached 9.8 percent, with 15.1 million Americans unemployed, and more than 7.1 million jobs have been eliminated since the beginning of the recession. President Obama's economic advisers said in the beginning of this year that the unemployment rate would rise to 9 percent with no stimulus package and would only rise to a maximum of 7.9 percent with the stimulus bill... Stimulus proponents clearly have failed the...
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By Deborah Durkee on
10/7/2009 8:06 AM
Obama administration backs U.N. restrictions on speech.
Okay, the Obama administration has just signed on to restricting Americans’ free speech rights. Now, this is unconstitutional, so what’s next? Isn’t his job, besides being commander-in-chief, supposed to be to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution? Or does it not count if he signs on to a U.N. resolution that does none of those things? This is from Anne Bayefsky at The Weekly Standard:
The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled out at the latest session of the UN Human Rights Council, which ended in Geneva on Friday…
President Obama chose to join the Council despite the fact that the Organization of the Islamic Conference...
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By Deborah Durkee on
10/6/2009 10:34 AM
Did illegals cause housing crash?
This seems like blockbuster news to me. I think this story will bubble up, but it might take a while (political correctness, don’t you know). But, watch for it because this could be a tipping point on the illegal alien problem in this country. If Americans find out that a big part of the reason their retirement portfolios and their houses have taken huge hits stems from the coddling and pursuing of illegal aliens to purchase housing with subprime mortgages, I can’t imagine what kind of anger will be added to the growing anger in the country. This is from Wiliam Campenni over at Human Events:
With deceptive media and obfuscating punditry, a false picture was painted that the people who got these subprime loans were poor folks or house flippers, or greedy boomers who re-financed to buy their new Volvo and swimming...
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By Deborah Durkee on
10/5/2009 7:09 AM
Thune: Time to shut down TARP.
South Dakota Senator John Thune has introduced a plan to shut down TARP and to use the remaining funds for deficit reduction. Logical, practical, responsible, so I’m sure it’s a non-starter since we have the least logical, practical and responsible Congress in my memory. But, let’s give this Senator three cheers for proposing it. Let’s hope this gets some play. From the Wall Street Journal:
…Originally designed and proposed as a straightforward measure to help failing banks get toxic assets off their books while they regained their financial footing, TARP was subsequently used by the Treasury Department to acquire extensive ownership interests in private businesses.
Our financial markets are no longer in free fall and the crisis has receded. Yet we now find ourselves in a troubling situation where...
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By Deborah Durkee on
10/2/2009 10:59 AM
Will Euros like a weak America?
They might have hated a strong America, but they’ll despise a weak one. This is from Denis Boyles in National Review Online, reporting from France. Where oh where is this president leading the country? We might not want to know:
…in France, the only person more popular with the press than Roman Polanski is Barack Obama.
But that may soon change — as it has already at the Elysée, and, for that matter, in government offices in Berlin and in Brussels and in the eastern capitals… Barack Obama…is himself being reinvented as an ugly American. Not because he’s seen as loud and aggressive, but because he’s seen as weak.
The events that have transpired since Obama took office nine months ago have been watched with widening eyes in Europe, and what they’re seeing isn’t what they had in mind when they...
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By Deborah Durkee on
10/1/2009 8:50 AM
New organization fights for free enterprise.
Here’s a new organization called The Free Enterprise Nation, fighting for the free enterprise system against the encroachment on our liberties and our pocketbooks by the huge expansion and expense of government. Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe featured the organization yesterday in his column. It looks like an organization worth supporting. This is from its website:
Virtually every government and school board is talking about raising our taxes.
Take a look at the “Oh, My!” category on this website, or use our search engine below to see what they are doing with your tax dollars. They’re giving your tax dollars to themselves!
We’ve got to stop them, and we can. We are 115 million workers and 5 million companies. If we combine our voices, we can accomplish anything we want...
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